This sort of documentation philosophy is part of US regulatory practices. The history of the enabling legislation is available online for all US regulations, as well as open comments made and agency responses to those comments.
“The most common reason for legislative history research is to determine the legislature's reason for creating or amending the law or the meaning of a term used in the law. This type of research finds the legislative intent.”
“The most common reason for legislative history research is to determine the legislature's reason for creating or amending the law or the meaning of a term used in the law. This type of research finds the legislative intent.”
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So context and motivation/decision and intention is preserved and made available to allow effective “debugging” of any US or State regulation.